The Framework
Twelve years of practice, distilled into The Meliora Method.™
The Method begins with what your body is actually doing.
The Meliora Method is a five-pillar framework developed by Dr. Chua over a decade of integrative and functional medicine practice. It treats your body as a connected system — where hormones affect gut function, gut function affects nutrient absorption, and nutrients underpin every other system.
Tier 1 is where that framework is built. Not treating symptoms in isolation — establishing the complete diagnostic and therapeutic foundation that every subsequent tier builds upon.
About the Meliora Method™ →Three services. One foundation.
These aren't separate offerings — they're interconnected. Assessment tells us what's off. Hormone rebalancing addresses the root cause. Nutrient repletion restores the building blocks.
Comprehensive Assessment
A full clinical intake, in-office lab draw, and 60-minute consultation with Dr. Chua. Your hormones, nutrients, thyroid, and metabolic markers evaluated against optimal ranges — not population averages. Every Meliora care plan begins here.
Learn more →Hormone Rebalancing (BHRT)
Bioidentical hormone replacement using pellets, micronized progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and topical compounds — tailored to your biology and lab findings. Not a protocol off a shelf.
Learn more →Nutrient Repletion
Targeted medical-grade supplementation correcting the deficiencies most commonly missed by conventional labs: ferritin, vitamin D, B12, folate. The raw materials your hormones and nervous system depend on.
Learn more →The Meliora Method
Three of the five Method pillars live in Tier 1.
Hormonal Balance
Evaluating your full hormone panel — estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA — against optimal ranges and restoring balance through bioidentical therapy.
Diagnostics & Labs
Comprehensive lab panels as the foundation for every clinical decision. Not screening for disease — screening for optimal function. Most patients arrive with labs that have never been read this way.
Nutrient Status
Identifying and correcting nutrient deficiencies that most conventional panels miss — the ones that underpin energy, cognition, hormone production, and immune function.
Dr. Chua trained in Neurology before pivoting to Integrative Medicine — which shapes how she approaches the connections between your hormonal axis, nervous system, and gut. The Meliora Method is built on that systems view. Tier 1 is where we establish what's disrupted. Everything else builds from here.
What comes next
Tier 2: Support Systems
Once your foundations are underway, Tier 2 addresses the systems that amplify or undermine them — gut function, adrenal and stress regulation, and intravenous nutrient delivery for patients whose absorption needs direct support.
Explore Tier 2: Support Systems →
Start with your assessment.
A comprehensive lab draw and 60-minute consultation with Dr. Chua. This is where every Meliora patient begins — and where the clearest picture of your health starts to form.